Yesterday, I found a cache in a location I had been before. Many, many moons ago, I found a cache near downtown at an office for a disability advocacy group. I’m sure that if I looked back through the archives, I could find the entry with a photo of a giant wheelchair out front. I hadn’t thought about that cache in years because, well, I already had it and it no longer showed up on my map. Imagine my surprise to find a new cache there. Obviously the old one was archived and this new one put in its place. I sometimes find myself returning to the same locations for caches because an old one will disappear and a new one will (frequently enough) take its place. But that’s how some of these locations get so well known around here: the caches go away, but they come back over and over.
Returning over and over is not only the secret of caches, but also cachers. A couple of days ago, I attended an Event in honor of local cacher and Keeper of the Can Indigo Parrish (somehow not pictured here) and his twentieth year of caching. I have (I think; I say a lot of things) sometimes talked about how the secret of caching is to just keep doing it. Well, he is living proof of that thought. Part of me still has trouble after seven years envisioning myself hitting ten years. Twenty? I might as well be dreaming about a foreign country. To look back on twenty years though? Holy monkey!
Finally, Saturday I once again go out to fulfill part of my contractual obligations (and grab a few caches) as Central Texas Representative for the Texas Geocaching Association. Had I world enough and time, I would have gone up Wednesday or Thursday, but tomorrow, unless something goes terribly wrong, I will be attending Lone Star Roundup, our other primary caching Event of the year. Since it doesn’t have the same competitive element as Texas Challenge traditionally does, it serves as a lower key chance for folks to just enjoy caching and the fraternal (and/or sororal) bonds of our shared endeavor. As always, I shall report back. No guarantee that I will be a good correspondent, but I shall do my best.
That’s it. Go back to whatever you were doing before.
Geocaching While Black 